Luciérnagas [Fireflies]

French poet and painter Alice Rahon began her career as an artist after she immigrated to Mexico in 1939, although she had been involved with the Surrealists in Paris beginning in 1935. Unlike fellow Surrealist émigré painters Remedios Varo and Leonora Carrington, who favored figuration, Rahon experimented more often with abstraction during the 1940s. In Luciérnagas, she pioneered the use of sand upon the canvas, adding surface texture to an ethereal scene populated by fantastical winged creatures. Connected by a delicate network of lines, Rahon’s fireflies dance across the canvas in vivid colors, demonstrating her mastery in combining abstraction and figuration in surreal compositions.